I honestly find the "upgrade" from Phenom II x6 to Ivy Bridge silly. It's your money, but it's an upgrade for the sake of upgrading rather than performance needed.

Originally Posted by Asera

Or is the 6970 an 8/6pin setup?

The HD6970 has an 8pin/6pin layout, yes. My HD6970 comes with 8/8.

Originally Posted by b0sanac

Not at the moment, which is why I had to drop it for the moment, the thing pissed me off to the point where I just wanted to throw it out the window lol.

What. How the heck can you buy such an awful PSU then? How can it possibly be 850w with only one setup of cables? :|
That's bad.
I suggest you bridge the old PSUs 24pin and route two of its PCIe-cables in through the external water cooling holes that are on every case.
Or remove a PCIe-bracket from the back of your case to route its cables in and run it off of the external PSU.

Well, in my old setup I was able to use a 4pin cable for the 12v power, with this new mobo I've had to use 8, so I lost out on one 8pin connector. Complicated story lol.

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Originally Posted by tetrisGOAT

I honestly find the "upgrade" from Phenom II x6 to Ivy Bridge silly. It's your money, but it's an upgrade for the sake of upgrading rather than performance needed.The HD6970 has an 8pin/6pin layout, yes. My HD6970 comes with 8/8.

What. How the heck can you buy such an awful PSU then? How can it possibly be 850w with only one setup of cables? :|
That's bad.
I suggest you bridge the old PSUs 24pin and route two of its PCIe-cables in through the external water cooling holes that are on every case.
Or remove a PCIe-bracket from the back of your case to route its cables in and run it off of the external PSU.

Honestly I never would've thought of that lol. Also yeah its sort of a "pointless" upgrade but tbh I have noticed better fps and stuff while playing.

I have an HD6970, and I can easily say that it's the least noisy component of my build, wheras I cannot say the same about my Corsair PSU and Noctua NH-D14

My HD6970 wasnt a reference model, it was a Powercolor, completely different cooler with a big ass copper pipes thing going on. Fans were still loud as hell though.

- This thing - My old HD6970

I think I also have a Noctua NH-D14 - Can't remember the exact model but it's a big ass heatsink with a big ass fan on both sides of it, and it's fairly silent. Infact my system since the new Windforce GTX670 upgrade is very quiet.

But it says there is a dedicated 8pin for the CPU, and there are two dedicated PCI-e cables whom both split into 8pins? What's the issue?

Having a check I actually have the "Noctua NH-U12P SE2" slightly different, I would not say it is my loudest component, but It's not like i've gone around measuring my components with a db meter, but the heatsink/fan is very very quiet in my computer and the graphics card is probably still the loudest part though it is very quiet.

I have this Motherboard. I hate it, with a passion. How is it treating you?

It has it's small quirks or what you want to call them, but once you get/see past them I love it, it needs a little love, but once I get it working it's running strong. (I have the cheapest model, no pro or anything).

Edit: It wouldn't let me update to latest firmware tho, and it took like freaking 4 hours to install Win7 Ultimate from a USB pen when I got the Crucial M4 SSD, hanging all the time.. But like I said, once it's running its treating me good.

It has it's small quirks or what you want to call them, but once you get/see past them I love it, it needs a little love, but once I get it working it's running strong. (I have the cheapest model, no pro or anything).

Edit: It wouldn't let me update to latest firmware tho, and it took like freaking 4 hours to install Win7 Ultimate from a USB pen when I got the Crucial M4 SSD, hanging all the time.. But like I said, once it's running its treating me good.

I meant I have the low end version too, just don't like it at all. For the $170-180 whatever I paid for it, it is very expensive, considering no SLI support and a crappy weak second PCIe lane.

4 hours seems slow for sure, wonder why that was. What firmware do you have on your m4? I have the m4 too and you absolutely need to be on 0309 at least or a later one like 000F I believe it is.

It has it's small quirks or what you want to call them, but once you get/see past them I love it, it needs a little love, but once I get it working it's running strong. (I have the cheapest model, no pro or anything).

Edit: It wouldn't let me update to latest firmware tho, and it took like freaking 4 hours to install Win7 Ultimate from a USB pen when I got the Crucial M4 SSD, hanging all the time.. But like I said, once it's running its treating me good.

Actually I had the same issue a while back and when i looked up the issue it turned out it was a USB device making the install hang at a certain point. It could also be other devices but my fix was to unplug my mouse and keyboard. After that there was no issue.